To get started with starting a server in Koa, we should first create a project directory and enter that directory. We can do so with the following commands:
mkdir koa-server
cd koa-server
Next, we initialize a project in npm with the following command:
npm init
After running this command, follow the prompts to help create a package.json file for your project.
You can run npm init –y to create a package.json file for your project with default values.
Next, we can install Koa to our project with the following command:
npm i koa
Now that we have Koa installed, we can create our server file. Let's call the file index.js. If you are using a Unix-based operating system such as Linux or macOS, you can create the file with the following command:
touch index.js
This file will serve as the entry point to our application, and we will write the main...